Rosa Bonheur (March 16, 1822 - May 25, 1899) was a French animaliere, realist artist, and sculptor. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais (in French Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape and, The Horse Fair (in French Le marche aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. Rosa Bonheur is widely considered to have been the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.